Akshay Srinivasan's Resume

Note: This resume web page of mine was hand coded in Visual Studio 2019 by myself. It is meant to show my skills at Graphics Art using GIMP (Graphical Image Manipulation Program), HTML, CSS, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), Javascript, Bootstrap and jQuery. I have public open source code and articles, links are provided in this web page, so my skills can be evaluated without doing basic memory testing in interview phases. Ever

Home Addresses

5A, Maker Mahal, Perry Road, Bandra West, Mumbai - 400050, Maharashtra, India
B1, Alsa Balmoral, 73 Harrington Road, Chetpet, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Laxmi Cottage, Fern Hill Road, Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, India

Contact Info

akshay.srin@gmail.com

akshays2112@gmail.com

+91-9884967112

Objective

Consulting solution(s), working Remotely, from Business Discovery Phase to delivering bespoke Web based solutions based on Blazor.

Involves technical, business, management, sales and all phases from start of engagement with the customer to delivering, deploying working solutions and if needed maintenance.

Blazor is an open source technology from Microsoft that enables the next-generation, cutting edge of web based solutions.

For Blazor based holistic business solutions for which there are no commoditized solutions my minimum asking consulting/contracting/freelancing hourly rate is Rs. 7500 per Hour (USD 100 per Hour @Rs.75/USD). Past calculation details can be seen in the Work Experience Details section.
For commoditized business solutions of any kind there is no minimum asking consulting/contracting/freelancing hourly rate and is open to negotiation. Will do due diligence business analysis and come up with a base quote and renogtiate if necessary.
I am only interested in working remotely (telecommuting). Willing to come to customers premises as and when a genuine need arises to be physically present.

Corporate Work Experience

Company Logo	Company Name	Job Title	Start Date	End Date	Total Experience
	Cognizant, Chennai, India	Senior Manager/Senior Technical Architect (Consulting)	October 2014	January 2017	2 Years 3 Months
	Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Mumbai, India	Consultant	14^th October 2009	20^th March 2014	4 Years 5 Months
	Financial Technologies, Mumbai, India	Project Manager	February 2008	October 2008	8 Months
	Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Mumbai, India	Assistant Consultant	8^th July 2002	6^th December 2005	2 Years 6 Months
	Microsoft, Las Colinas, Irving, Texas, U.S.A.	Developer Support Engineer	20^th March 2000	9^th February 2002	1 Year 10 Months
	Mir, Mitchell & Company LLP, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.	Application Programmer	29^th June 1998	10^th March 2000	1 Year 8 Months
	MTD Consumer Products, Valley City, Ohio, U.S.A.	Program Analyst	3^rd March 1997	24^th June 1998	1 Year 3 Months
	Vickers Inc. (Hydraulics R&D group), Rochester Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.	Co-op Electrical Engineer	September 1990	February 1994	3 Years 6 Months
Note:: All corporate experience has been verified via Background checks by multiple Indian companies.				Total Experience:	18 Years 1 Month

Current Technology Stack

Blazor Server-side, C#, .NET Core, HTML, CSS, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), Bootstrap, Javascript, JsInterop, Razor Components, EF Core (Entity Framework Core), SQL Server (including on Azure), MySql, PostgreSQL, Google Firestore Database, Microsoft Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), GitHub, Visual Studio 2019, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Deployment (IIS 10 Local & Remote Windows Server 2019, NGINX on Linux distro Ubuntu & Kali Linux, Cloud on Azure), Oracle VirtualBox, GIMP (Graphical Image Manipulation Program) for Graphics Art, Spotify Web API for Developers, Google Youtube Web API for Developers

Upgrading project(s) as new versions of all of the above release. Making any changes necessary to code and processes as and if the upgrades effect it in place, without making new projects and migrating/copying over code.

Work Experience Details

Self Employed
January 2017 - Present

Technologies: Blazor Server-side, .NET Core, C#, HTML, CSS, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), Bootstrap, Javascript, jQuery, JsInterop, EF Core (Entity Framework Core), SQL Server (including in Azure), MySql, PostgreSQL, Google Firestore Database, Microsoft Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), GitHub, Visual Studio 2019, SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), Deployment (IIS 10 Local & Remote Windows Server 2019, NGINX on Linux distro Ubuntu & Kali Linux, Cloud on Azure), Oracle VirtualBox, GIMP (Graphical Image Manipulation Program) for Graphics Art. Spotify Web API for Developers, Google Youtube Web API for Developers, Unity, Blender, Maya

The following are various Work In Progress (WIP) based on the Blazor opportunity.
- Working on various product ideas for business and developers.
- Creating Blazor Demo's to do Proof of Concept (POC) for customers to adopt Blazor based solutions.
  Many varying solutions like choice of Database, OS, Cloud Solutions, multilingual language support, etc. all pluggable depending on customers business requirements, budget, customizable, etc.
- Creating various Microsoft Office 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) assets to use for sales to get projects from customers.
- Creating a series of articles on CodeProject for Blazor evangelism.
  Links to the finished articles:
  - Drawing with the HTML Canvas Element in Blazor Server-side
  - Deploying Blazor Server-side to the Linux Distro Ubuntu
- Working on learning Spanish using duolingo.
  Purpose is to expand potential customers to approach.
  Have a real multilingual website for purposes of demonstration of Globalization and Localization C# code in Blazor Demo's.
- Reworked old articles, pertaining to some open source inventions of mine, on CodeProject.
  Links to the finished articles:
  - Canvas Control Library and New Forms Based System for building Web Pages and Websites
  - How to Manipulate Hierarchical Information in Flat Relational Database Tables
- Got some basic Canvas Control Library (CCL) ported to Blazor. Porting on a as need basis for controls that would lend themselves to drawing and would be hard to implement with HTML and CSS. Have requested Microsoft Blazor team to provide first class support to HTML Canvas Element API in C# without having to use JsInterop, which is what I am using right now.
- Producing quality Graphics Artist level art with GIMP (Graphical Image Manipulation Program). The background for this online Resume was produced by myself with GIMP (Graphical Image Manipulation Program). All the HTML/CSS/Bootstrap was hand coded by myself in Visual Studio 2019.
- Got a fully functional Blazor Server-side demo fetching playlists+songs from Spotify Web API for Developers. Includes Spotify Authentication.
- Got a fully functional Blazor Server-side demo fetching playlists+videos from Google Youtube Web API for Developers Includes Google Authentication.
- Picked up SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and handmade my own button icons which I am using in this resume. Figured out jQuery and used to it create my own handmade custom Javascript to handle the transforms and events of my custom SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) icons.
Worked on the following projects which are on hold due to Blazor opportunity.
- Creating a Unity 3D video game.
- Creating 3D Animated Models in Blender and Maya.
- Managed various freelancer(s) paying them to make 3D Models and clean up existing 3D Models.
- Made a Drawing Application with complex math algorithms, of my own invention, in Javascript using HTML Canvas Element API . Made videos in Camtasia to use this code to demonstrate and teach drawing on the HTML Canvas Element API . Also to teach how to take math, geometry, and make it useful for drawing. The effort was to make money by being an author on Udemy.

Cognizant
October 2014 - January 2017

Designation: Senior Technical Architect/Senior Manager
Role: Consultant
Total Experience: 3 Years 3 Months
Approximate Salary End: Rs. 21 Lacs per Year (USD 28K per Year @Rs75/USD) Approximate Hourly Rate: Rs. 1010 per Hour (USD 13.46 per hour @Rs75/USD) (For my Consulting/Contracting/Freelancing purpose; Calculation depends on 52 weeks in a year and 40 hours per week)

Technologies: C#, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), Graphics, Single Page Application (SPA), Web API, Knockout.js, Sammy.js, SAP Crystal Reports.

Clients: MLEU group clients, Wells Fargo (Bank), Barclays (Bank), Zoetis (Animal Health)

Writing RFP (Request for Proposal) for Manufacturing, Logistics, Energy and Utilities (MLEU group).
Single Page Application (SPA) for Wells Fargo (Bank) account.
End to End designer of public facing web applications and websites for Barclays (Bank) account.
Special Project
Enabled project to deliver complex graphs/charts, which they were failing to deliver. I coded all the charts required for the reports from scratch single handedly in C#, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation). Made each type of chart configurable and taught the team how to use it via C#. Was able to do this very quickly because of experience doing Canvas Control Library (CCL) controls in Javascript in 2012. The charts would be inserted via C# code into the SAP Crystal Reports Image element. The SAP Crystal Reports report's were being dynamically created via C# code.

The project was to create a product level software application for Zoetis (Animal Health) to enable them to better test animals for diseases. Complex business requirements requiring myself and other senior architects to do coding.

Demonstrated my strong Math, Geometry, skills translated into writing custom algorithm's in C#, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), .NET Graphics API, for all client requested charts and graphs. Prior to this I did not have the opportunity and hence need to code Graphics in C#. Picked up how to do graphics in C# and did it very quickly.

Self Employed
March 2014 - December 2014

Technologies: OSX, Objective-C, XCode, FreeTDS, GitHub, SQL Server, iPhone/iPad Universal App, Sprite Kit

Special Project
Thought about the idea to create an iPad/iPhone Universal App that would use the FreeTDS C library to talk natively to SQL Server. The source code for this obsolete old App is in my GitHub at SQL Server DBCommander.

Did Market Research of competitor's App's and found everyone was using Web Services to communicate from IPad/IPhone to SQL Server. Web Services require an additional Middleware to be installed on a Web Server. My idea would bypass the need for this Middleware and hence I had a Unique Selling Point (USP).

Did my budgeting and found I could afford a Mac Mini. I quickly familiarized myself with the OSX interface. Since OSX is like UNIX/Linux I did not have much trouble and used the terminal application. Then I went about learning Objective-C and XCode (IDE - Integrated Development Environment).

Went through the entire process alone from scratch to SQL Server DB Commander in the Apple App Store. I set the price to USD 1 which was INR 60.

By this time I got a job again and did not do the required Online Marketing so the App did not sell much.

As part of the Apple App Review process I was asked by the reviewer to send a video demonstrating how to use SQL Server DB Commander. This video that I made is still on YouTube.

SQL Server DB Commander is no longer on the Apple App Store as I did not renew my Apple Developer Subscription as it was expensive for me at USD 99 a year.
Came up with a concept for a simple 2D game. I went through the whole process, from scratch to finish, on my own and put Eleczon, a Sprite Kit based 2D game for iPad/iPhone Universal App, into the Apple App Store.

Again this no longer exists on the Apple App Store as I did not renew my Apple Developer Subscription due to my economic constraints. However, as this old App is obsolete I have released my source code in my GitHub Eleczon.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
14^th October 2009 - 20^th March 2014

Designation: Consultant
Role: Consultant
Total Experience: 4 Years 5 Months
Salary End: Rs. 19.43478 Lacs per Year (USD 25.913K per Year @Rs75/USD)
Approximate Hourly Rate: Rs. 935 per Hour (USD 12.45 per hour @Rs75/USD) (For my Consulting/Contracting/Freelancing purpose; Calculation depends on 52 weeks in a year and 40 hours per week)

Technologies: HTML, Javascript, C#, PHP, Java, JSP (JavaServer Pages), jQuery, Three.js, Maya, Unity, Blender, WebGL, Microsoft Kinect for Windows, XNA GameStudio 4.0, DirectX, Sharepoint, Sharepoint Web Parts, ASP.NET, QlikView, Siteminder, Ping Federate, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2010, AD (Microsoft Active Directory), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), Microsoft Silverlight, Multi-touch, SAP GUI, Sockets, SOA (Service-oriented Architecture), SSO (Single Sign On) Identity Authentication/Authorization

Clients: GM (General Motors), Chrysler, BP (British Petroleum)

Created Canvas Control Library based on my become aware of the Canvas element in HTML and understood the potential for it and created a new system of coding websites with both front-end Javascript and back-end C#. Also ported in under a couple of person days all 10K++ lines of back-end C# code to PHP and Java (JSP) with no knowledge of either PHP scripting and zero experience knowledge of Java based on my understanding on the high-level concepts of how programming languages, compilers, etc. work.
Created jQuery plug-in version of Canvas Control Library .
Exploring Three.js programming complex 3D animation using models made in 3D Modeling software such as Maya/Blender in Web Browser. This is continuation of efforts on the WebGL capability for browser based 3D software.
Did research and started up project involving showcase usage of Microsoft Kinect based application for TCS Microsoft CoE (Center of Excellence). Project was cancelled due to no budget to procure the Kinect hardware/device.
XNA GameStudio 4.0 (DirectX) 3D programming for demo of capabilities. Demo was a movie playing on a 3D planar surface which is rotating and translating in 3D space while audio is playing.
Worked on redoing the interface for Sharepoint based Manufacturing 2.0 BI (Business Intelligence) portal including making Sharepoint Web Parts for charts/graphs etc.
Creating software product that will use Sharepoint Client Object Model, ASP.NET 3.5 (due to Client Object Model cannot use v4 framework), HTML/CSS to deliver various types of Lists (Announcements, Calenders, Document Libraries, Custom Lists, etc.) to mobile users
Enterprise Sharepoint BI Portal for Chrysler involving Sharepoint 2010, Cognos, Qlikview, Siteminder, Ping Federate. Included Onsite visit to Chrysler World HQ in Michigan, U.S.A.
Global migration from Office 2003 to Office 2010 advisory for BP. Included Onsite visit to BP office in London, U.K.
Onsite visit to fix a stalled Global Sharepoint deployment for GM at GM World HQ Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. Problem was political and not technical. Solved all the political issues with minimal effort. Set the project back in motion which required me getting IT Director in charge to make a decision of my choice which I got him to make on his own. Project and new account was saved and back on track.
Picked up Sharepoint and delivered full solutions including other dependent systems to get it working Sharepoint Installation/Deployment, AD (Active Directory), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation), ASP.NET, Web Parts, etc.
Microsoft had donated a touch screen Notebook to the Microsoft CoE (Center of Excellence). The point was to TCS to develop capability for multi-touch capabilities to deliver solutions to clients. This was abandoned by the team and I picked it up when I joined figured it out. Built C# based solution app for cell phone store. The project was transferred from me before fully developed to another team member.
A need for a Silverlight Map Control for Sharepoint emerged. Figured out how to make Silverlight Sharepoint Web Parts. I picked it up and figured out and delivered it from scratch to production/deployment level Map Control.
Worked on an Automated Testing Tool which was an internal TCS Tool. Figured out how to control SAP GUI using C#. Wrote Java client side sockets to communicate to the C# server side that automated test cases for SAP.
Created training material in the form of presentations for C# and Javascript. Got approval from TCS Training Group and conducted C# training sessions. Conducted meeting based Training sessions for other group team members on Javascript.
Was asked to do research on SOA (Server Oriented Architecture). Got into all the specifications of Security specific to WCF, WS-*, Identity Management, etc. Created document covering all my research on these subjects and handed it over.

Self Employed
October 2008 - October 2009

Technologies: OSX, Objective-C, XCode, Maya, Mel Script, iPhone App, XNA Game Studio

Decided to make an IPhone 2D fantasy RPG video game. Purchased Mac Mini and IPhone 3G. Learned how to use the Mac OSX, Objective-C and XCode IDE (Integrated Development Environment). Hired via Freelancer.com a team of two women from Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. One was the drawing artist other lady was making Maya 3D models based on the 2D hand draw artwork. Managed them to deliver the graphic fantasy assets. Worked with them remotely from selecting them to delivery and closure of project. Figured out Maya Mel Script to automate ripping 3D Maya binary models to 2D images in the various orientations (N,NE,NW,E,W,S,SW,SE). Coded by myself the game and got it working on IPhone 3g. Made my own movement touch controller control and buttons with custom code. Abandonded project when I got a job and salary. As I no longer needed the money from the goal of commercializing this project.
Decided to make a 3D fantasy RPG video game for Windows. Picked up XNA Game Studio and programmed/coded basic working C# code to display model with animation. Had a lot of problems with 3D artifacts when model was moved and animating. Could not resolve this so abandoned the project. Here is my source code/project on GitHub Srinokan Dreams.

Financial Technologies
February 2008 - October 2008

Designation: Project Manager
Role: Project Management
Total Experience: 8 Months
Approximate Salary End: Rs. 12 Lacs per Year (USD 16K per Year @Rs75/USD)
Approximate Hourly Rate: Rs. 577 per Hour (USD 7.69 per hour @Rs75/USD) (For my Consulting/Contracting/Freelancing purpose; Calculation depends on 52 weeks in a year and 40 hours per week)

Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, Javascript, PDF, Excel, Word, Antelope, ActionScript, Adobe Flash, Web Services, WAP, POP3

Shared management of 21 member developer team with another Project Manager
I custom coded a Document Management system that went beyond what I created for TCS and included Articles (with attachments), Hyperlinks, Documents (including PDF, Excel and Word documents), Comments on the aforementioned, Search of aforementioned information, Forums, Project Tracking, User and Group level security for all the information.
Proposed a Natural Language Processing system (using Antelope) for News based trading system. Have built a test pilot with initial capabilities.
Picked up SQL Reporting Services to advice on report generation for websites to solve developers problems.
Special Project Learned ActionScript for Adobe Flash. Found out about Web Services based calls from ActionScript. Used this to create Forms which would connect to database etc. to do what was being done in ASP.NET websites in Flash. Advantage was with the help of my highly gifted graphics artist team member could deliver amazing graphics to do this.
Got WAP support going for ASP.NET websites.
Developed ASP.NET website to use Email (POP3 based) via web pages.

Self Employed
January 2006 - January 2008

Technologies: OSX, Objective-C, XCode, Windows Phone App, SQL Server CE

Work on IPhone 2D fantasy RPG video game.
Tested out capability of Windows Phone smartphone that I had with stylus from HTC. Got SQLServerCE working on it. Got a demo 2D video game working on it with images being stored and retreived from SQLServerCE. This was just for investigative purposes into this new technology, for me.

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)
8^th July 2002 - 6^th December 2005

Designation: Assistant Consultant
Role: Consultant
Total Experience: 2 Years 6 Months
Approximate Salary End: Rs. 5 Lacs per Year (USD 6.7K per Year @Rs75/USD)
Approximate Hourly Rate: Rs. 241 per Hour (USD 3.2 per hour @Rs75/USD) (For my Consulting/Contracting/Freelancing purpose; Calculation depends on 52 weeks in a year and 40 hours per week)

Technologies: C#, SQL Server, Business Objects, Codesmith Generator, WinForms (Windows Forms), Sharepoint, Sybase, UNIX, FreeTDS, VB (Microsoft Visual Basic), Windows Server, ASP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Linux

Clients: NGC (National Grid Corporation), Merrill Lynch, GE (General Electric)

Developed half of a Project Management product for TCS involving C#, MSDE (SQL Server), Business Objects (Data Abstraction Layer) and Codesmith (Code Generator).
Member of the .NET COE. Implemented the stored procedure test case from DBCompare in Windows Forms and integrated into an existing TCS tool in C# .NET. Designed web parts (including ones using treeview web control) for Windows Sharepoint Services in C#. Deployed a portal for Windows Sharepoint Services.
Analysis phase of a web based application for a utility company, Onsite consulting, NGC (National Grid Corporation) London, U.K. to track their suppliers and consumers of electricity.
Migration of Sybase 11.x database to SQL 2000 was being done manually. This involved porting 175 tables, 60 defaults, 5 views, 51 stored procedures, 350 permissions, 4 roles, and 50 users. Migrating 4GB of data using DTS. Testing of all schema and data to verify the success of the port. I created a VB (Microsoft Visual Basic) based application I called DBCompare to automate this whole process. It would connect to both SQL Server on Windows Server and Sybase on UNIX using TDS from a Windows Workstatation and compare whatever the developer had chosen to compare. More than 10 different compare operation types was provided by DBCompare. From simplest row count match to very complex such as when there is redundant rows ensure that they are copied out as well as full compare of all data per column per row match between both databases. Done for Merrill Lynch in London.
Onsite Project Manager for GEF&S and ACT projects in Merrill Lynch Farringdon, London, U.K. This involved tracking projects and ensuring deliverables for all projects in these areas. This was an onsite assignment in London, U.K.
Posted as trainer for GUI Design Concepts at Corporate Training Center, Trivandrum, Kerala.
Successfully made a project proposal and got the resulting business for GE involving a trip, Onsite, to the client in Connecticut, USA.
Special Project Proposed, designed and implemented a Document Management System using ASP and SQL 2000 Express for the backend using Notepad and Internet Explorer. Allowed tracking of all Knowledge Assets in the form of documents or links. This was used as the backbone for Knowledge dissemination for the GE Linux CoE. It was later adopted by all CoE's.
Because the power of my desktop and the majority of employees who were using my document management site I invented an algorithm that would very quickly display in a tree HTML/text structure with Javascript Expand/Collapse and GIMP custom made images by myself. The algorithm is now public facing as of 2006 and is documented in the following article:
How to Manipulate Hierarchical Information in Flat Relational Database Tables
Setup Linux CoE (Center of Excellence) for GE Global Development Center. Involved setting up a roadmap of technologies for Linux. Involved identifying and determining how to pursue acquiring knowledge in Linux Server and Client applications. Allocating and accessing research done in areas of Linux. Had temporary team members who were not direct reports that I had to manage.

Microsoft, Las Colinas, Irving, Texas, U.S.A.
20^th March 2000 - 9^th February 2002

Designation: Developer Support Engineer
Role: SQL Server Clustering Point Person
Total Experience: 1 Year 10 Months
Salary End: USD 74,634 per Year (Rs. 55.97 Lacs per Year @Rs75/USD)
Approximate Hourly Rate: Rs. 2700 per Hour (USD 36 per hour @Rs75/USD) (For my Consulting/Contracting/Freelancing purpose; Calculation depends on 52 weeks in a year and 40 hours per week)

Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server (6.5, 7.0, 2000, STD - Standard Edition, Enterprise, Clusters), Replication, Networking, VB (Microsoft Visual Basic), ASP, IIS, ODBC, OLEDB, DB-LIB, Windows Authentication, SQL Server Authentication, Transact-SQL, SQL-DMO, DTS (Data Transformation Services), NetApp Filer, Windows (3.x, XP, NT4, 2000, Clusters)

Support/troubleshooting for setup and recovery of production and development systems for (all self taught skills that I did not have coming in to the job):
- Microsoft SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000/STD/Enterprise/Clusters
- Windows 3.x/NT4/2000/XP/Clusters
- Replication – Snapshot, Transactional, Merge involving LAN/WAN
- Networks including routers, VPN, etc. to solve connectivity issues.
- VB, ASP, IIS, ODBC, OLEDB, DB-LIB, third party applications using various methods to connect to the database.
- Windows Authentication, SQL Authentication, permissions etc. to solve security issues.
Transact-SQL, SQL-DMO, C/VB code sent in by customers and examples created for customers and public articles.
Content creation for internal KM (Knowledge Management) system and public online article (KB articles - Knowledge Base) creation for search sites (support.microsoft.com).
Installed and maintained Compaq, DELL and non-HCL (Hardware Compatibility List) clusters in-house as well as NetApp Filer F740.
Successful on-site visits to customers to setup or recover failed mission critical clusters.
24x7 Pager rotation for production server cluster down consultation.
MCSE Certified

Mir, Mitchell & Company LLP, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.
29^th June 1998 - 10^th March 2000

Designation: Application Programmer
Role: Consulted at EDS NHIC, Austin, USA full time
Total Experience: 1 Year 8 Months
Approximate Salary End: USD 50K per Year (Rs. 37.5 Lacs per Year @Rs75/USD)
Approximate Hourly Rate: Rs. 1800 per Hour (USD 24 per hour @Rs75/USD) (For my Consulting/Contracting/Freelancing purpose; Calculation depends on 52 weeks in a year and 40 hours per week)

Technologies: VB (Microsoft Visual Basic) 3.x/4.x/6.x, Bar-Code Scanner, SQL Query, SQL Query Performance Tuning, Windows (3.x, NT), Rational Rose, Database Design, PL/SQL, Oracle (7.x, 8.x)

Maintenance of existing client/server Bar-Code claims processing application involving:
- Performance tuning of SQL queries and PL/SQL stored procedures.
- Network troubleshooting for LAN connections across routers.
- Oracle SQL*NET troubleshooting and setup.
- Application and reporting modification in Crystal Reports as requested.
- Bug fixing of application in VB (Microsoft Visual Basic) 3.x on Windows 3.x
- Ported existing VB3.x application running on Win3.x (16bit) to VB6 running on WinNT 4.0 workstation (32bit).
- Documentation of original system consisting of 600 functions and the new system in Rational Rose 98 as per required procedures.
- Re-designed and implemented separate data retrieval application due to change in protocol and data formats from originating system.
- Created application to automatically generate Excel reports and email to selected end-users.
A business decision to abstract hardcoded information in the Claims Information code and change it into a random computer generated ID resulted in a need to recode the entire mission critical system.

The original system was a bunch of BP (Business Process) statuses associated with each claim with information data associated with each step of the process while it went from department to department. This gave me an idea that instead of coding each status, step in the BP, as one form per step I would abstract the whole thing to becoming into a configurable product level piece of software.

Today this is known as Workflow Systems.

I then approached business executives and got their approval to make a proposal. I made the proposal which was passed by the Committee in charge of the changes to the mission critical system.

I then coded the whole system. It was also integrated into another system which was a shell system to include all software systems in use by the company. Made sure the new design of my system used all the features available and complied with requirements to work with the shell system.

The system was delivered. My contract ended. I then trained my replacement, an employee of the company, to take over my code.

For the new system I did the Oracle 8.x database design and implementation including stored procedures in PL/SQL.
Did by myself Microsoft Visual Basic 3.x/4.x/6.x coding for all systems discussed on Win3.x/WinNT4.0 and Oracle 7.x, 8.x database design, implementation, stored procedures in PL/SQL, etc.
Zero management oversight. Self driven.

MTD Consumer Products, Valley City, Ohio, U.S.A.
3^rd March 1997 - 24^th June 1998

Designation: Program Analyst
Role: General Work
Total Experience: 1 Year 3 Months
Approximate Salary End: USD 38K per Year (Rs. 28.5 Lacs per Year @Rs75/USD)
Approximate Hourly Rate: Rs. 1370 per Hour (USD 18.27 per hour @Rs75/USD) (For my Consulting/Contracting/Freelancing purpose; Calculation depends on 52 weeks in a year and 40 hours per week)

Technologies: VB (Microsoft Visual Basic), IBM AS400, IBM Client Access ODBC driver, Microsoft SNA Server, Data Warehousing, Oracle, Cognos Impromptu and PowerPlay, Symbiator, C UNIX Programming, PDM (Product Data Management)

Hired by VP IT (Vice President Information Technology) and given a broad mandate to help Sales Team on Windows Laptops do forecasting via software with the IBM AS400 based corporate system. There were getting green bar paper printout reports and had to manually make sense of the information/data which was very tedious and slow.
Manage various VB (Microsoft Visual Basic) projects that had been outsourced to a Consulting Firm.
Interact with a large number of employees from multiple sites from Factory level to HQ (HeadQuarters) Executive Management.
Figured out Microsoft Visual Basic and started with PoC (Proof of Concept) Windows Application that connected to IBM AS400 via IBM Client Access ODBC driver with Microsoft SNA Server to talk to IBM AS400 which was on a different network topology (Token Ring I believe).
Project Manager for Data Warehousing effort starting with Sales Functional area. I was fully involved in Executive Management meetings discovery phase of Facts they needed to know to run their business better.
Did Dimensional Modeling, Star Schema design, Oracle and rudimentatory testing of capbility on Cognos Impromptu and PowerPlay.
Usage of Symbiator for replication of data from database for offline usage by Sales Team on their laptops.
A little C UNIX programming to fetch data from a PDM (Product Data Management) product.
Zero management oversight. Self driven.

Vickers Inc. (Hydraulics R&D group), Rochester Hills, Michigan, U.S.A.
September 1990 - February 1994

Designation: Co-op (Co-operative Education) Electrical Engineer
Role: General Work
Total Experience: 3 Years 6 Months
Salary End: USD 8 per Hour (Rs. 600 per Hour @Rs75/USD)
Approximate Yearly Salary: USD 16,640 per Year (Rs. 12.48 Lacs per Year @Rs75/USD) (For my Consulting/Contracting/Freelancing purpose; Calculation depends on 52 weeks in a year and 40 hours per week)

Technologies: Microsoft Office (Access, Excel), VB (Microsoft Visual Basic), C, Assembler, Metawindows C Graphics Library, RS232 (Serial Bus Controller), OpAmp (Oprtational Amplifier)

Designed and implemented databases for cost, time and inventory tracking in Microsoft Access, Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Excel.
Designed and implemented a test system to test embedded control systems in the field over RS232 in C and Assembler.
Designed and implemented a graphical user interface for a Gomaco Paving Machine using C and Metawindows graphics library.
Invented a new use for OpAmp (Operational Amplifier) to solve a noise problem, free floating low voltage, in DMC (Digital Motion Controller) controller board design which the highly experienced Design Enginer of the DMC did not understand my solution at first. I explained the rationale/logic to him and he used it to solve the noise problem.
Miscellaneous work.

Work Ethic

When I am coding or designing a software system or architecting a solution, I think of the holistic business and all stakeholders when doing so. I prefer to understand and not just memorize and use. I prefer to use my creativity, my strength, to come up with my unique solutions.
Most people in the industry copy-paste code. I prefer to understand the system via the code example and then write unique code on my own. I make unique images on my own and will not directly download and use any image from the internet without modifying it unless it is a logo. I author all my images with GIMP (Graphical Image Manipulation Program) and demand unique artwork from colleagues I work with who are graphic artists.
Everything I have done has been self-taught throughout my career as I can quickly understand software, hardware and networking IT systems since childhood on my own.
I am very passionate about software. In 1983 I got a programmable calculator called the Sharp PC1500. It came with the Basic programming language and a slim manual that listed out the supported words of the Basic programming language. Nobody I knew was familiar with programming. Figuring out how to make video games on my own, I knew these small machines were the future. One could easily create any of your ideas on these machines with the greatest of ease. I was advised by my father to do Electrical Engineering since there were not many jobs for programming. I knew it was a matter of time before there would be. I turned out to be right. Since then, I have pursued making creative software, whether I can monetize or be rewarded in any way or not. I always name my computers after fantasy characters like one would call a pet one loves. Since I love software, I do my best on my own always with or without supervision or direction.
Willing to be background-checked on all my work. Have been background-checked for all my jobs in India. Always ready to be questioned about approach, methodology and am open to both positive and negative criticism and keep a positive attitude even in a negative work environment without letting my work suffer by getting affected. I am honest and transparent.

Education

College
GMI Engineering & Management Institute (Kettering University), Flint, Michigan, U.S.A.
Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
1990 - 1996 (Includes Co-op full time work)

Junior College (11th & 12th Standard)
K.C. College (Kishinchand Chellaram College), Mumbai, India
H.S.C. (Electronics Specialization)
March 1987 - March 1989

School (Jr. Kindergarten - 10th Standard)
Bombay Scottish School, Mumbai, India
I.C.S.E.
March 1974 - March 1987